20120233321 | NETWORK STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF ITS USE FOR TENANT SPECIFIC MEASUREMENT OF RESOURCE UTILIZATION IN A MULTI-TENANT SYSTEM FOR THE PURPOSES OF REPORTING, RATING AND ACCESS CONTROL - A system and method for metering the use of network-accessible computer resources by multiple users, each user being associated with two or more tenant client computing device connected to a multi-tenant system via a network. The multi-tenant system includes a load balancer and access control device, a server computing device, and a consolidated user store. Requests to use resources of the multi-tenant system are generated by one of the tenant client computing devices and are received by the load balancer and access control device. In response to such requests, the system executes usage measurement initiation instructions, processes usage measurement computation instructions and records usage measurement data, periodically detects recordation of the usage measurement data in said local memory cache, and aggregates said usage measurement data in said consolidated user store. | 09-13-2012 |